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Title: Three Essays on Estimating the Effects of School and Student Improvement Interventions
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Saw, Guan |
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Three Essays on Estimating the Effects of School and Student Improvement Interventions Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): College Degree; College Major/Field of Study/Courses; Educational Attainment; Propensity Scores; Socioeconomic Status (SES) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The second chapter evaluates whether postsecondary remediation influences college persistence, transfer, and attainment, and if effects vary by racial and socioeconomic subgroups. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of 1997 (NLSY97), propensity score analysis results indicate that while remediation in only mathematics or only English has no impact on student outcomes, the effect of remediation in both subjects is positive for students who started postsecondary education in two-year colleges but it is negative for their four-year college counterparts. Sensitivity tests show that the estimates for four-year colleges are quite robust but they are less so for two-year colleges. Subgroup analyses reveal that in two-year colleges high-socioeconomic students benefited the most from remediation in the long run, whereas in four-year colleges remediation appears to hinder nonwhite and low-socioeconomic students from completing college. Findings suggest that postsecondary remediation plays a critical role in the social stratification process in higher education. |
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Saw, Guan. Three Essays on Estimating the Effects of School and Student Improvement Interventions. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2016. |